Lymon - The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe

Lymon
In the novella “The Ballad of The Sad Cafe” by Carson McCullers, we are introduce with an interesting character, Cousin Lymon. Miss Amelia, one of the main characters of the novella, isconnected directly with this character. Lymon changed Miss Amelia’s life in both ways, in good and in worst. He is also the one who touched Miss Amelia’s heart. The Café starts and ends with Lymon. CousinLymon is one of the persons involved in a love-triangle, wich would have impact not only over the people involved in it, but also over the townspeople.
In the beginning of the story, a stranger camein the small town, asking for Miss Amelia. He was claiming that he was her cousin and he showed a blurred picture with Amelia’s aunt and his aunt, as proof. “The hunchback scrambled among thesebelongings and brought out an old photograph. ’This is a picture of my mother and her half-sister’” (8). He was poor, having only an old suitcase, looking funny and with no place to go. “I remember hearingher tell how she had a half-sister named Martha. And back in Cheehaw today they tell me that was your mother.”(7). Miss Amelia took him in and took care of him. She gave him clothes, her father’sbedroom, personal objects and lots of money. After the café was open, he became popular and the center of the attention at the cafe. He is that that kind of person who get under people’s skin very easily.The hunchback was very sociable and he was talking with everybody without any reservations. “There is a type of person who has a quality about him that sets him apart from other and more ordinaryhuman beings. Such a person usually has an instinct which is usually found only in small children, an instinct to establish immediate and vital connect between himself and all things in the world.Certainly the hunchback was of this type.”(20). The townspeople also liked him because, due to his arrival, the café was opened and they finally had a place where they can talk. The Café gave pride to the...